The Burnt Creek - Goodwood area, represents a part of the main ore zone on the contiguous exploration concessions of the Hollinger North Shore Exploration Company, in New Quebec, and of the Labrador Mining and Exploration Company, in Labrador, Newfoundland. The concessions cover the southern part of the “Labrador Trough”, a geological unit made up of folded and faulted sedimentary and volcanic series of late Precambrian Age. (Figure 1 ) This paper deals with a detailed study of the Kaniapiskau system with special reference to the Sokaman iron formation, the most important economic member of that system, in an area where large concentrations of iron ore ( as hematite and goethite ) occur within the iron formation. Field work conducted by the writer at various localities in the area during the summers of 1947, 1948 and 1949, particularly between Wishart Lake and Irony Mountain and to the north in the vicinity of Goodwood deposit ( Figure 2 ), together with field data of other members of the staff, form the basis of this study. The field work was followed by laboratory investigations at McGill University and at the University of Minnesota. A map of the vicinity of Burnt Creek accompanies this report to illustrate the major features of the geology of the area.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.124006 |
| Date | January 1952 |
| Creators | Dufresne, Cyrille. |
| Contributors | Gill, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Geological Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000482244, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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